#fine put him in a hunter green suit and make him goddamned moriarty

[cupidquinn-moved]

lmao so like, if this is a a tangentially Batman related blog, can I cry big manly tears about Edgelord Eddie in the new movie? 

Okay, okay, but more relevantly, can we have a good long conversation about DC’s deep-seated terror of camp since Joel Schumacher nearly single-handedly destroyed Batman on film. It’s truly astonishing. I need you to think about the fact that they are so shit scared of the franchise being seen as ridiculous that they appear to be taking one of the most iconic members of the Rogue’s Gallery and turning him into a re-skin of the fucking Zodiac Killer. Why? Fucking give me a good reason. Beyond ‘i dunno maybe you should wait until it comes out before you judge — ‘ imma stop you there and ask you what’s wrong with The Riddler as he’s usually portrayed? He wears a green suit (sometimes with question marks on it but not always and less so in recent years), has a sword cane, is ginger, and rather flamboyant. C’mon. We’re all still fine with Joker dressing like a fucking eggplant and taking him seriously as a threat.

I suppose you could argue someone got the idea to butch him up for the sake of him seeming “scarier” or, just to name the elephant in the room, some dumbfuck attempt to course correct a queer coded character. Which. honestly is kind of a stupid argument considering they were perfectly fine with letting Ewan camp up Black Mask, who was uhhhh....defo queer coded in the year of our sweet satan 2020. (also it still fucks me up that BoP came out in 2020 and how mad I still am that i fucked around and procrastinated on going to see it before the virus dropped and killed our local theatre). Which brings me to the more baffling observation is they’re perfectly fine with their other movies being flamboyant, strange, and yes, even camp and silly. They just seem to want it far, far away from Batman. Which is so, so strange and yeah I know Lego Batman exists and he’s in Harley Quinn: The Animated Series as a sad, awkward loser, but every feature film since Christopher Nolan took the helm has been grimdark af. 

Now i don’t want a return to the clown show that was the Shumacher movies, but I just. Don’t want Zodiac Riddler. I feel like they wanted to do Joker again but lmao, who the fuck is the Joker now? Is it Joaquin? Is it Jared Leto? Who fucking knows???? And I guess we’re sick of the Joker which is fair and hey you know what, maybe we don’t need Edgelord Eddie either.

tl;dr: Iggy spends three paragraphs whining about The Riddler.